Small arms news

The Algerian military is going to turn the T-62 into tank support combat vehicles. The material about this is posted on the portal menadefense.net. To implement this project, the turret with the 115-mm smoothbore 2A20 gun will be dismantled from the medium tank, and the Berezhok combat compartment will be installed instead.

The militants of the Taliban movement (a terrorist organization banned in Russia ) could get weapons and military equipment delivered to Afghanistan from the Czech Republic. We are talking about D-30 howitzers, Mi-17 and Mi-24 helicopters transferred for the needs of the Armed Forces of Afghanistan. This probability was allowed by the newspaper "Mlada Front Dnes".

The United States analyzes photos and videos taken by the Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation) at the Kabul airport. They show captured military aircraft, helicopters, cars and other trophies.

The BMPT was nicknamed the "Combine of Death"for its versatility even before it was put into service. Indeed, the crew of this armored vehicle, consisting of five people, can bring down a steel rain on the enemy from 30-mm shells of 2A42 cannons, two 30-mm automatic grenade launchers AG-17 at once, as well as guided missiles "Attack" with various types of combat units . It was reported that up to four targets can be attacked simultaneously. The modern fire control system allows you to use this weapon at any time of the day.

Military-economic cooperation was discussed in Belgrade at a meeting of Russian Deputy Defense Minister Tatyana Shevtsova and Serbian Defense Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

The latest military equipment was used at the special exercises of the logistics support units of the Western Military District that were completed in the Nizhny Novgorod Region. In particular, in the photo materials published by the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, you can see the latest modification of the BMP-3 with the Epoch combat module.

The Russian armored car K-4386 (4x4) in the special forces version of the Z-SpN was shown for the first time at the International military-Technical Forum "Army-2021"

Its prototype, which successfully passed the tests, was demonstrated to the Minister of Defense as part of the "Army-2021"

The Kalashnikov Group of Companies (GC) has started developing a promising small arms complex capable of managing data on the enemy's location and increasing the situational awareness of a serviceman. This was reported to TASS during the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" in Kalashnikov.

The company also told about plans to modernize the entire system of equipment for military personnel

The Kalashnikov Group of Companies (part of Rostec) is developing comprehensive equipment for military personnel, a new version of the PPK-20 submachine gun will be finalized by the end of the year, as well as the small arms system will be modernized. This was announced on Friday by the company's CEO Vladimir Lepin in an interview with the Zvezda TV channel within the framework of the Army-2021 forum.

In recent months, the German Rheinmetall and the Spanish Escribano Mechanical and Engineering jointly conducted a demonstration of new weapons and detection systems installed on the chassis of the Mission Master SP family of DOOMS.

The new remote-controlled combat module "Baikal" for armored vehicles is completing the preliminary testing stage, the press service of the Uralvagonzavod concern (UVZ, Rostec) told Interfax.

The AU-220M artillery module is designed for arming armored combat vehicles

The newest remote-controlled combat module (DUBM) AU-220M "Baikal" is at the final stage of preliminary tests. This was reported to TASS by the press service of the Uralvagonzavod concern (UVZ, part of the Rostec state Corporation) during the military-technical forum "Army-2021".

The new Kalashnikov assault rifle will be able to shoot cartridges of three calibers. Yesterday, on August 25, the press service of the concern published a promo video of a carbine model with replaceable barrels.

Kalashnikov can launch licensed production of automatic weapons in Saudi Arabia in a few months after the signing of the contract, the general director of the concern Vladimir Lepin told Interfax.

Alexander Kochkin, Executive Director of JSC "NPK "Techmash", said that the Ministry of Defense will be able to purchase the complex only after the release of administrative documents on its adoption into service.

Russia has received new applications from the countries of Central Asia, Afghanistan's neighbors, for the supply of helicopters, small arms and border protection systems, the company's CEO Alexander Mikheev told RIA Novosti during the Army-2021 forum.

The situation with the pandemic in Venezuela is still not easy, so it is extremely difficult to guarantee full protection from coronavirus to specialists in the current conditions, Vladimir Lepin, CEO of the Kalashnikov concern, told Interfax.

The US sanctions imposed against Kalashnikov are aimed at giving the Americans an advantage in the small arms market, Vladimir Lepin, CEO of the concern, told Interfax.

The concern expects high demand from foreign customers for the new AK-19 automatic rifle

"Kalashnikov" expects high demand from foreign customers for the new AK-19 automatic rifle with a NATO cartridge (5.56x45 mm) and is ready to establish its production abroad,the general director of the concern Vladimir Lepin told Interfax.

On Wednesday, August 25, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, after visiting the shooting center in the Patriot Park, instructed to speed up state tests of promising small arms and protective equipment for VKS pilots.